Shades of Grey By Ashley Stimpson Feature In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong? Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
An Atlas of the Cosmos By Shannon Stirone Feature We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.
Longreads Honored with 14 Notable Mentions in ‘Best American’ Series By Longreads Commentary Our cup runneth over! Congratulations to all!
“The Final Five Percent” Wins 2020 Science in Society Journalism Award By Longreads Highlight Congratulations to Tim Requarth, whose Longreads essay has won the 2020 award in the Longform Narratives category.
Roxie Laybourne: the World’s First Forensic Ornithologist By Krista Stevens Highlight “Having spent thousands of hours preparing thousands upon thousands of specimens, Laybourne had accumulated a library’s worth of knowledge about birds.”
‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Doug Bock Clark, Samanth Subramanian, Michael Hobbes, Jonathan Cohn, Kate Sheppard, Alex Kaufman, Delphine D’Amora, Chris D’Angelo, and Emily Peck, and Kris Willcox and Michelle Ruiz.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter Eisler, Linda So, Jason Szep, Grant Smith, Ned Parker, and Jaed Coffin, Sarah Gilman, Katy Kelleher, and Irris Makler.
The Toll of Separation By Carolyn Wells Highlight Rachael Buchanan details the long and arduous journey to separate twins Safa and Marwa Bibi, who finally went back home to Pakistan this week.
The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene By sanderskristin Feature A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.
Summer Mother By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.
Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent By Jeanna Kadlec Feature Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.
Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent By Jeanna Kadlec Feature Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.
Out There: On Not Finishing By Devin Feature What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
An Atlas of the Cosmos By Shannon Stirone Feature We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.
Shades of Grey By Ashley Stimpson Feature In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene By sanderskristin Feature A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Smiley, Reid Forgrave, Susan Casey, Michael Rosenberg, and Lucy Jones.
The Powerful Decide By Longreads Feature What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
‘The Sea and Sky Decide What They Will Allow’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I’m working on a book about Arctic explorers, and that means swimming in a sea of sorrow.”
The Grieving Landscape By Longreads Feature Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack. By Dana Snitzky Commentary To read my “This Week in Books” newsletter in the future, follow me on substack.
Palliative Brownies By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grew up in the grip of the epidemic, maturing as people I adored as surrogate aunties and uncles fell ill and vanished from our lives.”
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court By Gabriel Thompson Feature Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries By Irina Dumitrescu Feature A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral By Yxta Maya Murray Feature In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
“Do You Get Shit for Your Name?” By Osama Shehzad Feature When your name is Osama and you’re living in post-9/11 America, you always know The Question is coming.
‘These Were His Mountains, After All’: Remembering One’s Father While Cycling in the Swiss Alps By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene By sanderskristin Feature A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
Summer Mother By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael A. Gonzales recounts the life lessons of a favorite auntie.
Find Yourself By Elizabeth Isadora Gold Feature From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.
Out There: On Not Finishing By Devin Feature What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
